Last Updated:
February 28, 2007

GCRIO Program Overview

Library 
Our extensive collection of documents.

Privacy Policy

Archives of the
Global Climate Change Digest
A Guide to Information on Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depletion
Published July 1988 through June 1999

FROM VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, JANUARY 1990

PERIODICALS...
ENERGY

Item #d90jan61

"Lighting the Industrial World," L. Lamarre, EPRI Journal, 4-15, Dec. 1989.

One-quarter of U.S. electricity use is for illumination, and advances in lighting systems may have the largest potential for energy savings of any electricity use, but utilities are having difficulty getting businesses interested. Discusses new technology, barriers to innovation, and continued technological research.

Item #d90jan62

"Natural Gas: Ready to Lead in the 1990s," E.A. Tracy, Public Util. Fortnightly, 11-15, Oct. 26, 1989.

An outgoing chairman of a nationwide association of gas utility and pipeline companies reviews cooperative efforts of the gas industry this past year to promote sound environmental practices. Natural gas can make a valuable contribution to resolving the problems of acid rain and urban air pollution.

Item #d90jan63

"Natural Gas--From Where and at What Cost?" L.M. Liberman, ibid., 9-11, Sep. 28, 1989.

The chief executive officer of a gas distribution company challenges the view that there is plenty of natural gas in the United States that can be readily discovered if the proper price incentives are provided. Raises doubts about prescribing natural gas as a universal answer to the nation's growing energy needs.

Item #d90jan64

"Oil and Gas Estimates Plummet," R.A. Kerr, Science, 245(4924), 1330-1331, Sep. 22, 1989.

The estimate of oil remaining to be found in the United States has plunged to 35 billion barrels, with 51 billion barrels of recoverable oil thought to remain in known fields. This represents only a 16-year supply; gas estimates at best indicate only a 35-year supply.

Item #d90jan65

"Department of Energy Announces Plans to Develop a National Energy Strategy," JAPCA, 39(9), 1232-1233, 1255, Sep. 1989.

Several task forces have been established to develop a National Energy Strategy (NES), an action plan to provide the United States with adequate supplies of clean, competitively priced energy in the future. Intergovernmental responses must also be considered to develop effective strategies.

Item #d90jan66

"Averting Global Warming: Energy is the Key," A. Meyer, Nucleus, 11(2), 1,4, Summer 1989.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed last fall by 35 countries to address the science of climate change, socio-economic impacts and possible response strategies to the greenhouse crisis. The three working groups are expected to report in 1990 at a forum that may lead to international agreements, but unilateral reforms, especially in energy policy, must be given top priority by national, state and local policymakers in the United States.

Item #d90jan67

"More Work for Less Energy," S. Boyle, New Sci., 37-40, Aug. 5, 1989.

Energy efficiency or the `quiet revolution' appears to offer one of the best ways to reduce the impact of global warming from the greenhouse effect. Reviews ways industrialized and third world countries can become more energy efficient.

Item #d90jan68

"Nuclear Safety After Chernobyl," B.O'Neill, ibid., 59-65, June 24, 1989.

To reverse the tide of growing opposition to nuclear power, the newly formed World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) hopes to present a new image of reliable safe power stations as well as East and West support towards nuclear glasnost.

Item #d90jan69

"Nuclear Power--Act II: Atomic Energy Gets a Technological and Environmental Boost," W.J. Cook, U.S. News & World Rep., 106(21), 52-53, May 29, 1989.

Several companies have safer, cheaper and smaller designed nuclear power plants to offer as an alternative to fossil fuel burning and its resultant global warming problems. Suggests that streamlining government approval processes would enable plants to be operational within three years.